/lit/ - Literature

>>18576323
Austerlitz by Sebald, 2666,and the My Struggle series by Knausgaard come to mind. Atonement and Saturday by Ian McEwan. Wasn't No Country for Old Men post-2000? I like plenty of non-fiction written since 2000 but assume you meant fiction. I am ambivalent towards Elena Ferrante, I feel quietly certain it's really a man writing. When Ferrante is good she/he is good, at least in comparison to other contemporary work, but she/he can also be pretty bad.

>>18576335
Some always are. The majority are average, doing English Lit because they didn't know what else to do and felt they had to go to uni. There are pletty of SJWs, but thankfully most of the texts I teach don't really hold up to their ideological lenses, or afford enough for them to spin it into a University-level essay.

>>18576346
I would love to marry my current girlfriend, however things have been tough recently. She stuck with me through my BA, the brief spell I spent as a police officer after my BA (literally 1 year), my MA and my PhD, all while earning lots of money in procurement. She's undecided whether she'll come with me to Italy and I think it'll put a strain on our relationship regardless. If we do end up breaking up it'll hit me hard, although it does open up literally the whole world career-wise. I don't know if I'd ever marry if that happened. Difficult to think about.

>>18576347
Yeah, i got funding and ended up paid about £27k a year doing my PhD in the UK. Not a great salary by any means but far from minimum wage, and I was able to save about £900 a month of it.

>>18576354
I did, thank you. I am in the process of reworking it into a book that will quickly go out of print and never sell a copy, but will look good on my CV.

>>18576379
They whispered it to me after I successfully defended my thesis. If I told you I'd really have to kill you.

>>17092134
This one is the basis of a scene in War and Peace